Maintenance Reliability Process Engineer - Post Consumer Brands

Headquartered in Lakeville, Minn., Post Consumer Brands, a business unit of Post Holdings, Inc., is dedicated to providing people and their pets with delicious food choices for every taste and budget. The company’s portfolio includes beloved brands such as Honey Bunches of Oats®, PEBBLES®, Grape-Nuts® and Malt-O-Meal® cereal, and Peter Pan® peanut butter, as well as Rachael Ray® Nutrish®, Kibbles ‘n Bits® and 9Lives® dog and cat food. As a company committed to high standards of quality and to our values, we are driven by one idea: To make lives better by making delicious food accessible for all. For more information about our brands, visit www.postconsumerbrands.com and follow us on LinkedIn for the latest news.

Post Consumer Brands recently acquired several iconic pet food brands, venturing into a new market while remaining true to our purpose to provide delicious and accessible food that our consumers love. We’re always searching the center store for the next exciting product to add to our portfolio, and right now, we’re growing and need passionate, driven individuals with diverse perspectives to help us reach greater heights. That’s where you come in. Join a team where your voice is not only heard but valued. Make a real impact on brands enjoyed by millions of people and their pets.

At Post Consumer Brands, we take pride in our longstanding legacy of making one of every five breakfast cereals families eat daily. Today, we’re just as focused on our future as we expand our grocery business with different shelf-stable foods, including snacks and peanut butter. We are committed to providing accessible and delicious food for families, and we’re always searching the center store for the next exciting product to add to our portfolio. As we soar to new heights, we need creative, determined individuals from all walks of life to join our team, where your unique perspective and ideas are acknowledged and valued. Be a part of a company that empowers you to make a difference that’s evident on grocery store shelves and families’ tables across North America.

Post Consumer Brands in Battle Creek, Mich., the cereal capital of the U.S., is the company's largest manufacturing plant and home to about 600 team members. When you join the team here, you'll be helping to produce some of the most iconic cereal brands, including Honey Bunches of Oats cereal, PEBBLES cereal, Grape-Nuts and Honeycomb cereal. The Battle Creek plant is also unique as it is home to the original barn where C.W. Post started the Postum cereal company in 1895. The Battle Creek team has deep community roots, supporting the city's Cereal Festival, local elementary schools, and hosting several on-site volunteer events throughout the year.

The Reliability Engineer partners with operations and maintenance teams to research common failures and implement strategies and engineering changes to reduce equipment downtime. 

The successful candidate will be responsible for driving efforts to ensure reliability (MTBF) and maintainability (MTTR) of equipment, processes, utilities, facilities, controls and safety/security systems. Identify and manage asset reliability risks that could adversely affect plant or business operations. This broad primary role includes loss elimination, risk management and life cycle asset management.  The ideal candidate for this position will have extensive experience in using engineering problem solving skills to identify root cause, trends and failure modes to reduce or eliminate failures and have the capability to implement solutions as both project engineer and project manager when the need arises. 

 Responsibilities and Accountabilities 

• Develop engineering solutions to repetitive failures and all other problems that adversely affect plant operations. These problems include capacity, quality, cost, or regulatory compliance issues. To fulfill this responsibility, the reliability engineer applies data analysis techniques that can include:
• Statistical process control
• Reliability modeling and prediction
• Root cause analysis (RCA) and root cause failure analysis (RCFA)
• Failure reporting, analysis and corrective action system (FRACAS)
• Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
• Works with project engineering to ensure the reliability and maintainability of new and modified installations.
• Ability to design and implement Maintenance Reliability projects through the following competencies:
• Select, hire and manage engineering consultants and contractors.
• Manage multiple assigned engineering and or technical service projects establishing manpower, budgets, scheduling, equipment, and materials.
• Control project schedule, costs and quality via project management skills.
• Professionally and systematically defines, designs, develops, monitors and refines an asset maintenance plan that includes:
• Value-added preventive maintenance tasks.
• Effective utilization of predictive and other non-destructive testing methodologies designed to identify and isolate inherent reliability problems.
• Provides input to a risk management plan that will anticipate reliability-related and non-reliability-related risks that could adversely impact plant operations.
• Ability to train other personnel on data analysis tools and techniques.
• Works with Production, Maintenance, and Engineering to perform analyses of assets including:
• Asset utilization
• Equipment effectiveness
• Remaining useful life
• Other parameters that define operating condition, reliability, and costs of assets.
• Provides technical support to production maintenance and technical personnel.
• Applies value analysis to repair/replace, repair/design and make/buy decisions
• Participate in plant and enterprise driven continuous improvement projects and initiatives.

EDUCATION:
• Bachelor of Science in an Engineering discipline is required with BSME (Mechanical Engineer) and/or focus in Equipment Reliability Engineering preferred.
• Preferred Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional (CMRP).

EXPERIENCE:
• 3 or more years of experience in maintenance and reliability, production management, engineering or operations experience.
• Advanced computer skills
• Experience using continuous improvement methodologies to lead RCA and RFCA events.
• Ability to develop and manage good working relationships with internal departments (production, sales, logistics, accounting), contractors, suppliers, inspectors, and customers.
• Strong mechanical and electrical knowledge and aptitude.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong knowledge of preventive maintenance programs and the tools associated with failure detection (i.e., vibration analysis, oil monitoring, and thermography) as well as the software associated with them.

Post Holdings provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, status as a covered veteran and any other category protected under applicable federal, state, provincial and local laws.